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...Broadbent, leader of the socialist New Democratic Party, calls the Amoco bid a "black day for Canada," because it would tip foreign control of the $49 billion petroleum industry well past 50%. The deal could also test Prime Minister Brian Mulroney's vow to seek friendly foreign investment...
Cynics were quick to ask what the country has been doing since he first made that vow at the outset of the Cuban revolution. Indeed, many of the problems facing Cuba have a distinctly familiar ring. World prices are sorely depressed for its two leading hard-currency earners, oil from the Soviet Union, which it exports on the spot market, and sugar. Moreover, bad weather has damaged the sugar crop; in recent years Cuba has been forced to buy shipments from other countries to meet its sugar-export quotas to the Soviet bloc. The resultant drop in foreign earnings...
...Brazilian posture was outlined by Finance Minister Dilson Funaro in a speech he gave last week before the ruling Brazilian Democratic Movement Party. Funaro repeated his vow to withhold interest payments until a debt- restructuring agreement is worked out. Any pact, he said, must involve a reduction in Brazil's interest obligations. Such a decline is necessary, Funaro argued, in order for the Brazilian economy to expand...
...vow to continue the unbroken chain of tradition...
...Either become a Heavy Metal fan after an hour and spend the rest of your evening revamping your record collection, or have a contest with your roommate to see who can cry through the most Kleenex, write inspired poetry, and light a candle in the window for love and vow to keep it forever burning as Lionel Richie croons in the background...